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New backup mediums such as IDE hard drives could change the landscape of backup technologies. IT managers should consider using IDE drives to back up applications that have small inactivity windows. Downtime and data loss are expensive problems. Although backup and disaster recovery solutions can get pricey, it is important to remember that even the […]

1.All in the family. Time-Warners staff e-mail will now arrive via AOL, due to the recent merger. Hope they like spam. 2.Driven. Wingcast, a joint venture between Qualcomm and Ford, is set to offer “telematics” to drivers, putting office technology in cars. At this point, wed settle for cheaper gas. 3.Take a bite. Apple Computer […]

Microsoft is expected to make available for download on June 19 the final version of its consumer instant messaging product, Windows Live Messenger (WLM). WLM is one of the first of Microsofts ever-expanding family of Windows Live services to make it beyond the beta phase. The final Windows Live Messenger bits were not yet posted […]

When Windows XP was released in October, USB 2.0 support was lacking but promised as soon as possible. Today Microsoft made good on that promise—record time for the Redmond giant. Users with USB 2.0 host controllers can download the driver by going to the Windows Update website, www.windowsupdate.com. (Note: PCs without USB 2.0 card or […]

Interactive Weeks 2001 I-Manager Survey is designed to gauge the challenges and issues facing executives in charge of corporate Internet initiatives, as well as the state of corporate spending on Internet projects. I-manager is a term Interactive Week coined to describe the business and technology executives in charge of corporate Internet and other interactive initiatives. […]

Large companies with considerable IT resources and a long history of reliance on telecom and computer networks emerged from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with their business processes mostly intact. But smaller firms – some directly affected, others merely contemplating the business ramifications of mass outages – are scrambling to develop low-budget disaster recovery plans. […]

Mogull: Social engineering is the manipulation of people rather than electronic systems in a security attack. The reality of it is that we all use it on a day-to-day basis-to get a discount at a store, to maybe get into a concert that were not supposed to get into, and so forth. Successful social engineering […]

Since Harriet Pearson was appointed IBMs first chief privacy officer two years ago, she has dedicated herself to creating privacy policies and initiatives that strengthen IBMs efforts to protect personal data for its employees and customers. Pearson has also focused on developing products that pay attention to privacy—in particular, products from IBMs Tivoli group. IBMs […]

It may sound contradictory, but the hacker behind the Month of Kernel Bugs, or MOKB, project actually said he believes in responsible disclosure. Throughout November, the man known as LMH has been releasing daily exploits for unpatched kernel-level flaws in operating systems—including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and FreeBSD. In an interview with Senior […]

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As a recent graduate of the university of California, Los Angeles, I was one of the “lucky” 800,000 who received an e-mail from the university last week. Most of the correspondence I get from UCLA relates to alumni donations, but this e-mail was different: It alerted me to the fact that my identity is at […]

Dear bozos (you know who you are): Put your dunce caps on and repeat after me about a hundred times — I will not open the attachment of an e-mail that promises a picture of a naked celebrity. Take this advice so that I wont have to read the insipid “news” reports that will inevitably […]